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Author:  Paul & Lesley [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:48 am ]
Post subject:  Lefties out there

OK both me and my wife are left handed.
So how many members of Paphos people are also left handed.
I am seeing more and more people that are left handed here in Cyprus.

Author:  SFD [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefties out there

Paul & Lesley wrote:
OK both me and my wife are left handed.
So how many members of Paphos people are also left handed.
I am seeing more and more people that are left handed here in Cyprus.

O.H. is ..... also Hitler & Dr. Crippin :smilielol

Author:  M.A.D [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefties out there

Out of curiosity, what draws you to the fact that someone is left handed?

Over the past couple of years we have noticed a huge rise in the number of people (usually young females) who use their fork in the right hand and there knife in their left hand BUT it doesn’t necessarily mean they are ‘lefties’ since they hold the food down with the knife (don’t actually use it to cut food) and tear it apart with the fork. The fork is then inverted and used like a shovel.
We know several people who use this method but are NOT ‘lefties’

Author:  Lofos-5 [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:05 am ]
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Might have to do with Theresa May's recent performance?

Author:  Wavy Dave [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:38 am ]
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SFD wrote:
Paul & Lesley wrote:
OK both me and my wife are left handed.
So how many members of Paphos people are also left handed.
I am seeing more and more people that are left handed here in Cyprus.

O.H. is ..... also Hitler & Dr. Crippin :smilielol


Oh SFD. So funny :greetings

Author:  zorbathejock [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:28 pm ]
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The DIY shop in Pegeia sells left handed screwdrivers and paintbrushes, also cordless hammers.

Author:  Neil [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:28 pm ]
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Me ... :greetings :bat I wave with my left hand and also swing a baseball bat with my left ..
just saying :lol:

Author:  lowvoltage [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:38 pm ]
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I was born left handed and when I went to school I was forced to use my right hand, in those days being left handed was a stigma and was a curse, today I can use both hands OK but not with equal dexterity.
As a foot note science has proved that if you are left handed you think faster than a right handed person, now there is a thought.

Author:  zorbathejock [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 2:50 pm ]
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I'm right handed and am struggling to understand your post

Author:  artlin [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:03 pm ]
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It is all very sinister if you ask me.

Author:  Paul & Lesley [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:12 pm ]
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We have a left handed cork screw, and you should see right handed people trying to use it!
:giggle

Author:  PW in Polemi [ Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:17 pm ]
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I'm left handed :greetings and I wear my watch on my right wrist and sling my handbag over my right shoulder.
My late father was left handed but forced to write with his right hand.
My mother is left handed and was such a good knitter that she was selected to knit and present a traditional Guernsey to HM the Queen on her visit to Guernsey in 1978.
Both my brothers are right handed, yet for quite a while, my elder brother always set the table with the knife on the left and the fork on the right of the place mat. Probably down to his preference to use the fork in his right hand. Although I will set the table "correctly" (as decreed by and for you righties :roll: ), I will subsequently move my glass so I can reach it easily with my left hand, rather than reach diagonally across my own place setting. However, I have not changed my mouse settings - a right handed person can easily use my mouse, they just have to move it to the other side of the computer. :grin:

The school I went to insisted on fountain pens, not biros - well before the days of roller ball pens. My poor parents had to fork out extra for a fountain pen with a left handed nib, and a left handed hockey stick, and left handed dress making shears ..... To this day, I blame my inability to play tennis on being left handed. Nothing to do with the racket, simply because when we had to practice serving against a high wall (the aim being to hit the ball between two horizontal lines painted thereon), every time I threw the ball up and looked to see where it was prior to hitting it, I got the sun in my eyes. Didn't happen to the righties. But at least nobody "borrowed" my hockey stick, shears or fountain pen!!!

Barack Obama is left handed too.

Author:  Topgun [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 7:55 am ]
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Quote:
Barack Obama is left handed too.


In my youth being left-handed was to be branded 'cack-handed'.
Your reference to B.O. brought the memory flooding back for some reason. ;)

Author:  Hermes [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 8:39 am ]
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artlin wrote:
It is all very sinister if you ask me.


So Dexter but not many Latin speakers on here. :giggle

Author:  SFD [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:02 am ]
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Hermes wrote:
artlin wrote:
It is all very sinister if you ask me.


So Dexter but not many Latin speakers on here. :giggle

Q.E.D..
I am fairly ambidextrous. :greetings

Author:  PW in Polemi [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:29 am ]
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Topgun wrote:
In my youth being left-handed was to be branded 'cack-handed'.

Yes, but where I come from, the phrase "et mal y fait" (and badly made) was often appended to cackhanded!

I think the cackhanded accusation springs from when lefthanded people write, because in order not to smudge what has just been put on paper, some of them twist and turn their left hand round so the hand is above the writing - it looks very awkward. I don't do this, I simply angle the paper so the lines of writing run from 11 to 5 on a clock face, rather than horizontally from 9 to 3. Fortunately, none of my teachers ever tried to force me to change, not even the elderly irascible primary school teacher who was very free with whacks from her wooden ruler (legs and feet HAD to be inside the desk legs, not encroaching into the aisle)!

Author:  zorbathejock [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 9:33 am ]
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Author:  shania [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 10:23 am ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
I'm left handed :greetings and I wear my watch on my right wrist and sling my handbag over my right shoulder.
My late father was left handed but forced to write with his right hand.
My mother is left handed and was such a good knitter that she was selected to knit and present a traditional Guernsey to HM the Queen on her visit to Guernsey in 1978.
Both my brothers are right handed, yet for quite a while, my elder brother always set the table with the knife on the left and the fork on the right of the place mat. Probably down to his preference to use the fork in his right hand. Although I will set the table "correctly" (as decreed by and for you righties :roll: ), I will subsequently move my glass so I can reach it easily with my left hand, rather than reach diagonally across my own place setting. However, I have not changed my mouse settings - a right handed person can easily use my mouse, they just have to move it to the other side of the computer. :grin:

The school I went to insisted on fountain pens, not biros - well before the days of roller ball pens. My poor parents had to fork out extra for a fountain pen with a left handed nib, and a left handed hockey stick, and left handed dress making shears ..... To this day, I blame my inability to play tennis on being left handed. Nothing to do with the racket, simply because when we had to practice serving against a high wall (the aim being to hit the ball between two horizontal lines painted thereon), every time I threw the ball up and looked to see where it was prior to hitting it, I got the sun in my eyes. Didn't happen to the righties. But at least nobody "borrowed" my hockey stick, shears or fountain pen!!!

Barack Obama is left handed too.


Good story apart from the made up bit Left handed fountain pen. :grin:

Author:  PW in Polemi [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:22 pm ]
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shania wrote:
Good story apart from the made up bit Left handed fountain pen. :grin:

Not a story at all and certainly not made up. :evil:
Read this
http://www.penheaven.co.uk/blog/the-wri ... t-handers/
and take particular note of this paragraph
Fountain pens present the biggest challenge for lefties, since nibs are generally cut for right handers. Only a few brands produce nibs dedicated for the left hander, which are cut in the opposite direction.

Author:  Bassman63 [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefties out there

I'm left handed, much depends how you used something for the first time, I batted at cricket right handed because as very young my Dad stood over me in the right handed stance and because of that I played Hockey right handed in the army. I bowled left handed, kicked a ball left footed, threw at darts left handed but when I started playing guitar/bass there weren't left handed guitars/basses readily available so I play right handed but it didn't stop me becoming the phenomenal Bassist I am today. The army didn't cater for left handed shooters but at my shooting club about 5% of members are left handed but I still shoot right handed as I always have.

Author:  Bassman63 [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 12:35 pm ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
shania wrote:
Good story apart from the made up bit Left handed fountain pen. :grin:

Not a story at all and certainly not made up. :evil:
Read this
http://www.penheaven.co.uk/blog/the-wri ... t-handers/
and take particular note of this paragraph
Fountain pens present the biggest challenge for lefties, since nibs are generally cut for right handers. Only a few brands produce nibs dedicated for the left hander, which are cut in the opposite direction.


I encountered this when we moved onto ink pens at school.

Author:  shania [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 4:25 pm ]
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I must say OOP's Sorry :oops: . My wife who is left handed showed and explained to me why she also had to have a left handed fountain pen. I just natural y remember the fountain pens I used had straight nibs as we pulled them along, whereas a left handed person has to push the pen along.

Author:  PW in Polemi [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:17 pm ]
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'Pology accepted, Shania.
:greetings

Does your wife (and any other lefties out there) find that things like door handles are on the wrong side of the door (we lefties have to reach across ourselves to grab the handle), the cheque book used to drive me nuts (had to hold the old stubs up out of the way with my right hand so I could fill in the stub that was on the left of the cheque, talk about cackhanded :evil: ), centre front zips on trousers and skirts are fitted the wrong way round for us lefties, etc etc etc

So although (according to lowvoltage and science) we lefties think faster than you righties, we have a lot to put up with and adapt to...

Author:  SFD [ Sat Jun 17, 2017 8:16 pm ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
"any other lefties out there find that things like door handles are on the wrong side of the door"

Usually, there is a handle on both sides of a door .... but to put one near the hinge would need a lot of leverage !
:smilielol

Author:  PW in Polemi [ Sun Jun 18, 2017 9:19 am ]
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:morning SFD
What I meant was that the door handle on the side of most use is generally placed on the right hand side, with hinges on the left. As a leftie, to open the door, I have to reach across myself to grab the handle. All righties just reach out, no awkwardness.....

And I won't go into why I am glad I'm not a muslim ..... :oops: :lol:

Author:  SFD [ Sun Jun 18, 2017 9:37 am ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
:morning SFD
What I meant was that the door handle on the side of most use is generally placed on the right hand side, with hinges on the left. As a leftie, to open the door, I have to reach across myself to grab the handle. All righties just reach out, no awkwardness.....

And I won't go into why I am glad I'm not a muslim ..... :oops: :lol:

:morning too !
I understood your meaning, PW. ..... Just giving an impishly facetious reply. ;)
Yes ... your reference to Arabian, and other's, customs might put some off of their breakfast.

Author:  TalaDavid [ Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:42 am ]
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PW in Polemi wrote:
shania wrote:
Good story apart from the made up bit Left handed fountain pen. :grin:

Not a story at all and certainly not made up. :evil:
Read this
http://www.penheaven.co.uk/blog/the-wri ... t-handers/
and take particular note of this paragraph
Fountain pens present the biggest challenge for lefties, since nibs are generally cut for right handers. Only a few brands produce nibs dedicated for the left hander, which are cut in the opposite direction.


If you went to school in the sixties and had handwriting lessons, I bet the pens were Osmiroid.

Author:  SFD [ Sun Jun 18, 2017 10:47 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefties out there

TalaDavid wrote:
PW in Polemi wrote:
shania wrote:
Good story apart from the made up bit Left handed fountain pen. :grin:

Not a story at all and certainly not made up. :evil:
Read this
http://www.penheaven.co.uk/blog/the-wri ... t-handers/
and take particular note of this paragraph
Fountain pens present the biggest challenge for lefties, since nibs are generally cut for right handers. Only a few brands produce nibs dedicated for the left hander, which are cut in the opposite direction.


If you went to school in the sixties and had handwriting lessons, I bet the pens were Osmiroid.

Mine was a Conway Stewart.
I also had a Calligraphy set with several different, interchangeable nibs.

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